Watch: How To Get A Cat’s Flick The Marc Jacobs Way

If you’re anywhere near as avid a make-up devotee as me, you’ll probably have clocked up the hours on youtube watching a whole lot of tutorials on how to get the perfect cat’s flick (and, let’s face it, probably had a fair few wonky lines and smudged corners in your time). You’ll also have seen all the best tricks to getting the perfect angle from sticking sellotape to ensure a perfectly straight line to following the curve of your lower lash line.

Great though those tips are, they often miss the crucial thing in making a flick of black look great: the add ons. Enhancing the hollow of the eye crease (so important – you’ll see why), applying a base shadow (no slip!) and – if you’re feeling daring – running a little white crayon in the lower waterline for that retro nod all make the liner look very accomplished indeed.

Step in Gilbert Soliz, Global Makeup Artist for Marc Jacobs Beauty and king of modernising a flick. Picking up from part one, watch the video to see him master these steps:

2) Next, load up a crease brush with a neutral matte shade and blend it into the crease between your eyelashes and eyebrows. Remember: let the brush do the work of blending – all you have to do is sweep back and forth in the crease.

3) To add a little more dimension, take a slightly darker matte shade and brush it into the outer corner of the crease.